TAS
Senior Member
The earliest that additional construction work will begin, the earliest that it's possible, is 2025.
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Munanyo
Active Member
Thank God, that stretch of Jasper is flat out embarrassing and rundown.
Is there any Jasper Ave New Vision construction work taking place this summer?
Is there any Jasper Ave New Vision construction work taking place this summer?
_urbanite
Senior Member
Canada invests in expanding Edmonton’s active transportation network - Canada.ca
Today, the Honourable Randy Boissonnault, Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance and Member of Parliament for Edmonton Centre, and Councillor Anne Stevenson, O-day’min Ward Councillor, on behalf of His Worship Amarjeet Sohi, Mayor of the City of Edmonton, announced a joint...www.canada.ca
Fantastic news. I'm hoping we'll see shovels in the ground before the end of 2024, though maybe that's not realistic?
thommyjo
Senior Member
Exciting news!
Anyone know where more info is on the 400mil fund the gov is allocating to active transportation? Maybe more will still come for us, but 9mil (2.5%) doesn’t seem like a ton when we’re 4.1% of the population and I’d imagine funding would skew even more towards large metros vs evenly across all population.
TAS
Senior Member
City engineer managing this project told me earliest it could happen is 2025 when I inquired. Could be later. If 2025, then they hope to have it done by end of 2027.
bingo
New Member
9 mil is pennies... justin please open ur purse
TAS
Senior Member
Not aware. But in doing a quick news search lots of announcements have been made.
The municipality of North Grenville in Ontario with a population of 18,000, received nearly $1 million so your theory may be off.
North Grenville to receive nearly $1 million for extension of multi-use pathway
The grant dollars will be used to extend the pathway from where it currently ends at Settlers Trail, north to River Road, bringing the total length of the pathway up
www.insideottawavalley.com
_urbanite
Senior Member
That's still 900 000 000 more pennies than the Alberta government has chipped in to date
thommyjo
Senior Member
Yeah, maybe they’ll use funding to support smaller municipalities, and they’ll expect cities to carry more of the load? But idk, if the goal is climate related, you’d think the biggest bang for your buck would be looking at things like Edmontons bike plan and funding a good chunk of it for 20-40mil. (5-10% of the fund).Not aware. But in doing a quick news search lots of announcements have been made.
The municipality of North Grenville in Ontario with a population of 18,000, received nearly $1 million so your theory may be off.
North Grenville to receive nearly $1 million for extension of multi-use pathway
The grant dollars will be used to extend the pathway from where it currently ends at Settlers Trail, north to River Road, bringing the total length of the pathway up
thommyjo
Senior Member
Just noticed this, sorry if it's been discussed before. Anyone know why they cut these trees? Feel so rare to have big trees, especially in medians in our downtown. Not trying to keep them seems weird. The new planters are beautiful, but could we not road diet a little more to keep the canopy? Or did we need such wide sidewalks in the expense of losing the trees?
Avenuer
Senior Member
Those trees were in 'concrete coffins' in that median and were likely not very healthy (even though the photos show many leaves) and I believe the new trees were planted in soil cells so they should do MUCH better.
Greenspace
Senior Member
Changing the road to eliminate the boulevard eliminated the trees. The new trees would be planted in soil cells and hopefully grow quite fast. See 108 Street as an example.
We are going to probably loose mature trees along 105 Street when they redo Beaver Hills House Park as well. I have real mixed feelings about this. If the trees are approaching the end of their life, putting new trees in soil cells makes sense at the time of renewal, because that only happens ever 40 or so years. However, we are going to loose a lot of greenery and new trees Downtown have been decimated by the street population in terms of vandalism.
We are going to probably loose mature trees along 105 Street when they redo Beaver Hills House Park as well. I have real mixed feelings about this. If the trees are approaching the end of their life, putting new trees in soil cells makes sense at the time of renewal, because that only happens ever 40 or so years. However, we are going to loose a lot of greenery and new trees Downtown have been decimated by the street population in terms of vandalism.
David A
Senior Member
I do feel we are too quick to remove older trees. They are probably better able to withstand climate conditions, neglect and vandalism than newly planted trees that are likely very vulnerable especially in the first few years.
danimori
Active Member
Looks like they are adding continuous crossings on the next phase of imagine Jasper. Page was recently updated:
"Utility relocation will begin later this year and road construction will begin in 2025. Construction is anticipated to take 3 years to complete."
"Utility relocation will begin later this year and road construction will begin in 2025. Construction is anticipated to take 3 years to complete."
northlands
Senior Member
Exciting. Not to be dramatic but I genuinely think this will make a major impact in activating Jasper Ave along west Wihkwentowin and it cannot come fast enough.